Looking at the release notes it seems FreeBSD 8 now supports booting from
a GPT formatted partition but going through the installer it seems, please
correct me if I'm wrong, that its still no possible to actually install
using a standard disk1 to a clean machine with a large disk?
I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous
versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice
easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the release notes.
Any pointers?
Regards
Steve
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Steven Hartland wrote:> Looking at the release notes it seems FreeBSD 8 now supports booting > from a GPT formatted partition but going through the installer it > seems, please correct me if I'm wrong, that its still no possible to > actually install using a standard disk1 to a clean machine with a > large disk? > > I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on > previous versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping > there was a nice easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the > release notes.Unfortunately not, although work is in progress on teaching sysinstall about gpart. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20091203/6b61dfcb/attachment.pgp
On 12/2/09, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote:> Looking at the release notes it seems FreeBSD 8 now supports booting from > a GPT formatted partition but going through the installer it seems, please > correct me if I'm wrong, that its still no possible to actually install > using a standard disk1 to a clean machine with a large disk? > > I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous > versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice > easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the release notes. > > Any pointers? >If you have a look at the Root On ZFS tutorial, it shows how to create a GPT formated system from the Fixit environment: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS Note: In step 4 it is using the size in sectors, but you can also use 4G instead of 8388608. Scot
According to Steven Hartland:>I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous >versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice >easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the release notes. > >Any pointers?A plug for my ZFS-on-ROOT howto here: http://www.keltia.net/howtos/zfsboot -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr In memoriam to Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:03:29 -0600 Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote:> If you have a look at the Root On ZFS tutorial, it shows how to create > a GPT formated system from the Fixit environment: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFSJust FYI, this tutorial worked nicely with the memtick image, installing on a amd64 machine. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:54:06 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote:> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:03:29 -0600 > Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you have a look at the Root On ZFS tutorial, it shows how to > > create a GPT formated system from the Fixit environment: > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS > > Just FYI, this tutorial worked nicely with the memtick image,s/memtick/memstick/ sigh. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen